Valmet Automotive, Marussia Motors Start Cooperation

Valmet Automotive, a leading service provider of the automotive industry and Russia's first high-performance car company Marussia Motors have signed an agreement on strategic partnership in the engineering and manufacturing of the B2 vehicle.

Valmet Automotive will be a strategic partner to Marussia Motors and will provide the project management and a wide range of engineering and manufacturing services to bring the sports car into the production. The manufacturing of the B2 vehicle will take place at the Valmet Automotive Uusikaupunki plant.

The cooperation commences through product development. During this year Valmet Automotive and Marussia Motors engineers will be working on technical documentation alignment, product engineering and development of final process for Marussia B2 assembly in Finland. During the engineering phase the Marussia B2 project will employ Valmet Automotive engineering professionals.

The start of production depends on progress of the cooperation. We plan this phase in the end of 2012 or during 2013. The annual production volume target is several hundred cars. A dedicated assembly line will be set up for the Marussia B2 production at the Uusikaupunki plant.